Catalogue # CHAN10664

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ABC Classic FM CD of the Week: 18th April\n2011

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Halvorsen:
\nSymphony No. 3
\nBergensiana
\nBlack Swans, Premiere recording
\nWedding of Ravens in the Grove of the Crows, Premiere\nrecording
\nFossegrimen Suite incl. Danse visionaire
\nWedding March, Op. 32, No. 1

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Ragnhild Hemsing (hardanger fiddle) & Marianne Thorsen\n(violin)
\nBergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

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Neeme Järvi is back conducting the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra\nin the third volume in Chandos’ series devoted to the orchestral\nworks of the Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen. They are joined on\nthis recording by Ragnhild Hemsing on Norway’s national instrument,\nthe Hardanger fiddle, and by Marianne Thorsen on violin.

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Johan Halvorsen was a highly prominent figure in Norway’s\nmusical life during the first decades of the twentieth century, and\nthe works on this CD are all performed by the orchestra that he\nhimself conducted in the 1890s.

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